Religious Interactions in Europe and the Mediterranean World

Katsumi Fukasawa is Emeritus Professor at the University of Tokyo and Visiting Professor of European history at Kyoto-Sangyo University, both in Japan. Benjamin J. Kaplan is Professor of Dutch History (Chair) at University College London, UK. Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, and Fellow of the ‘Institut Universitaire de France’.

Introduction



Katsumi Fukasawa



Part I. Christendom divided: dilemmas of coexistence, attempts at dialogue



1 Crossing confessional frontiers in the sixteenth century: Frenchmen before the Italian Inquisition



Alain Tallon



2 Between Protestants and Catholics: Proposals for the establishment of universal peace and toleration



Miriam Eliav-Feldon



3 Sympathy for the secret society: The Family of Love, Humanists, and Guillaume Postel.



Taihei Yamamoto



4 God's vengeance and forgiveness for enemies: A new perspective on the Anabaptist contribution to the development of religious toleration and reconciliation in early modern Europe



Tomoji Odori



5 Do good fences make good neighbours? Living with heretics in early modern Savoy



Graeme Murdock



6 Religious conflict and community in early modern Ireland: The Presbyterian Question



Robert Armstrong



7 ‘When in Rome…’: Religious practice by Anglicans on the Continent in the 17th and early 18th centuries



Sugiko Nishikawa



8 Religious printed material: actor and witness of inter-faith rivalries in south-west France in the seventeenth century



Éric Suire



9 Port-Royalists as a catalyst for the inter-confessional dialogues in seventeenth-century France



Masanori Sakano



10 Protestants in the French Navy before and after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes: Political and social questions



Martine Acerra



11 Can erudite friendship break down inter-confessional barriers and promote ecumenical dialogue? The case of the correspondence of Cardinal Querini, Bishop of Brescia, with the pastors of the French Reformed churches of Prussia in the 18th century



Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire



12 ‘In death they are not divided’: The Irish